Already have synthesizers or other MIDI equipment? Now you can play music on these devices (external modules or virtual instruments) using the skills you already have on Accordion, Concertina, Flute, Whistle, Bagpipes, or Hammered Dulcimer instead of being limited to playing a piano keyboard! Please check out my MIDI Controller Apps based on traditional musical instruments!

Most of the iPad apps now include support for Audiobus and Inter-App Audio Instruments so they can be used for recording in Apple’s GarageBand for the iPad and many other multitracking and effects apps.

To get started, please choose the instrument you want to play by clicking on the Main Menu above.

Featured Artist – Fernando Arroyo
from Guanajuato, Mexico

Play my apps on the go, take them on stage and play live, or use them to add traditional instrument sounds to your recordings and soundtracks like these artists:

The apps are perfect for learning and practicing in your apartment, on a work break, when the kids are asleep, or wherever you are. Wherever you have your mobile device, you can play or practice. Play in headphones while waiting for a meeting, or while riding the bus, train, or plane.

On a recent airline trip to visit my parents, I practiced five-row Chromatic Button Accordion in headphones the whole flight back. There’s no way I could have done that with a real accordion, they would have escorted me off the plane in handcuffs and I’d probably would have ended up featured on CNN!

If you want to learn to play any of these instruments but don’t want to invest a lot of money buying a real one, my apps are an inexpensive way to get started. The skills you acquire from playing the apps transfer to the real instruments.

I know this works from first-hand experience. I learned to play B/C button accordion first from my Hohner B/C Melodeon iPad app before getting a real one, and was very quickly able to play tunes on the real instrument.

My apps will give you a realistic experience of playing these instruments for a fraction of the cost of a real one.

Already play one of these traditional instruments, but want to use your current skills to play hardware or software MIDI synthesizers? Check out my MIDI control surfaces!